What is Portal.office.com & Why you should use it ?
Poratl.Office.Com- If you are an employee of University of Maryland, Baltimore, you have access to Office 365 via poratl.office.com . Office 365 provides all the standard Office apps (email, calendar, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneDrive) in a cloud environment — which means you can access your data (email, calendar, files, etc.) from anywhere that you have a device and internet access.
But how do you access all of these items from anywhere?
That’s where the Office 365 portal comes in. When you are away from your workstation, the Office 365 portal is the tool that allows you to access email, calendar, and files saved to OneDrive for Business. The portal also offers online versions of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, which allows for quick and easy viewing and editing of files. If you’re at a meeting across campus, at home, traveling for work — whatever the scenario — use the portal.office.com to access your email or files.
How Do you Access the Office 365 Portal from portal.office.com?
From any web browser, to go the portal.office.com home page. You will be prompted to enter your UMB e-mail and password.
If you are off-campus, there is a new security step called Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA). MFA requires another device (smartphone or landline) to authenticate that you are who you say you are by sending what is called a “Push” or a pass code. Once this step is completed, you will be taken to your www.portal.office.com home page.
For detailed information on MFA, including on how to enroll, visit the Center for Information Technology Services MFA web page.
How to Log in to Office 365 portal ?
Open a browser and navigate to https://portal.office.com/
Enter your password in the Marquette sign-in window (shown below) and click or tap Sign in.
Choose when prompted whether or not to stay signed in, selecting Yes or No.
The Office 365 Portal Home appears.
How to Install Office 365 Software ?
Go to portal.office.com and sign in with your UTHSC email and password.
The page will default to the Office view.
Click Install Office in the upper right hand corner.
You will see the following popup:
At the bottom of your screen, you will notice a file has been downloaded.
Click Close to close the popup window.
Double click on the file in at the bottom to begin installation then follow the instructions.
NOTE: Mac users may need to navigate to your Downloads folder to open the file.